You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?

I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damnedsense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.